Is there a WB command at all that can...

[MethodGit]

...delete a directory and all of its contents (including recursive subdirectories) at once? Basically something akin to the "RD" command in Windows.

[Hungry Horace]

delete directoryname#? all ... maybe?

i dont really want to test it thanks!

edit: - yep, seems to do the trick

[MethodGit]

Yup, ultimately googled a bit for it. I is stupid.

[Amiga1992]

YEah that works. But it's quite unsafe.

[MethodGit]

True say, but so long as you're only deleting temp directories in, say, RAM:, it's alright.

Okay, another question (just so I don't start yet another thread)...

How do I make a script that executes a specific command on a file-by-file basis? Say something like this IPF2ADF script, but rather than do a file requester, I want WWarp to convert each file one by one, utilising the same script/command. Basically something akin to the "if" command in DOS/Windows (if anyone knows about it).

[Anakirob]

IF, ELSE and ENDIF, as well as ASK and some other such commands are all part of the standard workbench and should be in the C directory.

Personally I find DOpus great for all my file operations.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by MethodGit

How do I make a script that executes a specific command on a file-by-file basis?

set source `requestfile drawersonly`
set dest   `requestfile drawersonly savemode`
list >ram:tempscript "$source" files p=#?.adf lformat="adf2ipf *"%p%n*" *"$dest%m.ipf*""
execute ram:tempscript

Originally Posted by Akira

YEah that works. But it's quite unsafe.

If which way is it unsafe? It deletes the directory with all its contents. Why do you call it unsafe?

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by thomas

If which way is it unsafe? It deletes the directory with all its contents. Why do you call it unsafe?

Because if someone is really stupid it can delete everything in a blink. If you miss something you might as well end up erasing the root or parent of a dir.... who knows :P
As far as I remember, there's no ARE YOU SURE? prompt on that.

[TCD]

Yeah, it should have a 'ARE YOU SURE?' and another 'REALLY???' prompt for every delete How times have changed

[thomas]

That's not Windows where it asks you if you are sure when you change the position of the mouse. If you use a DOS shell, you should know what you are doing.

rm -R something does not ask, too.

[Amiga1992]

That's why I said, it is dangerous in the hands of the stupid.

:P

[TCD]

Wait, did you just called MG a... nvm

[cosmicfrog]

ok of topic but how many of us here use the recycle bin I dont
when I delete something I want it to stay deleted .....

[HonestFlames]

delete "temp#?" all

...will delete the directory called 'temp' and all contents. It will also delete any file in the current folder beginning with 'temp...' and any other directories beginning with 'temp...' and all of their contents!

[TCD]

Why would you add '#?' anyway? Doesn't make much sense if you only what to delete temp and its contents.

[cosmicfrog]

format c: oh err wrong os sorry

[thomas]

There is a difference between dangerous and unsafe. If delete command was unsafe, it would not work correctly, i.e. it would delete things you didn't tell it. But it does not do this, so it is completely safe. It's dangerous as you can tell it to delete important files and it will do that. But it's completely safe to use as long as you are careful in what you tell it to delete.

The temp#? example belongs into the category of stupid users. If you don't understand how paths and wildcards work, you should not use the DOS shell. Stay with DirOpus or such programs then. And keep away from shell scripts.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

format c: oh err wrong os sorry

No, right OS. Windows does not allow you to format the boot partition while it is in use. AmigaOS does! And it will succeed!

[cosmicfrog]

dos command so assume we are in dos and not windows, but you are right

the only dangerus command I can think of was a poke on some cbm pet that overloaded something and could set it on fire, though may be a miff

[MethodGit]

Thanks for the layout, thomas! But the script I'm looking to process takes up more than one line, and I'm having a fair amount of trouble getting "list" to create the list of commands correctly, so I'm thinking of something else.

Do you know if AmigaDOS has anything like the %1, %2 etc references in DOS/Windows, if you wish to execute a batch/script file while adding references to a file/directory at the end? Something like, oooh, this random CMD example:

adf2adz "blah.adf" "blah.adz"

would execute a batch file named adf2adz.bat that contains a series of commands to deal with files referred to only as "%1" or "%2" inside the script.

Basically I want to do something like that with the Amiga, but in connection with what you gave me in your post in regards to searching for ipfs and referencing them in a series of commands.

If that makes any sense at all.